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Ncogo P, Giesen C, Perteguer M, Rebollo M, Nguema R, Benito A, et al.
Trop Med Infect Dis . 2025 Jan; 10(1). PMID: 39852658
Background: Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, is one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that the WHO has set out to eliminate. To reach this elimination target, a number of challenges...
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Ncogo P, Hernandez-Gonzalez A, Ta-Tang T, Redondo L, Alvarez A, Perteguer M, et al.
Infect Dis Poverty . 2024 Nov; 13(1):86. PMID: 39538268
Background: Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF) are endemic in Equatorial Guinea with notable variations in disease incidence between island and mainland regions. Historically, efforts to control and map these diseases...
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Rodriguez-Galet A, Ventosa-Cubillo J, Bendomo V, Eyene M, Mikue-Owono T, Nzang J, et al.
J Infect Public Health . 2024 Jun; 17(8):102476. PMID: 38901117
Background: In Equatorial Guinea, only 54 % of people living with HIV know their HIV status. There are no confirmatory or molecular diagnostic techniques for early diagnosis or monitoring of...
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Ayala A, Ncogo P, Eyene J, Garcia B, Benito A, Romay-Barja M
J Epidemiol Glob Health . 2023 Oct; 13(4):886-894. PMID: 37870720
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of mortality from a single infectious disease agent. Equatorial Guinea is a country with high estimated TB incidence in 2021 (275...
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Rodriguez-Galet A, Ventosa-Cubillo J, Bendomo V, Eyene M, Mikue-Owono T, Nzang J, et al.
Viruses . 2023 Jan; 15(1). PMID: 36680067
A lack of HIV viral load (VL) and HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) monitoring in sub-Saharan Africa has led to an uncontrolled circulation of HIV-strains with drug resistance mutations (DRM), compromising...
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Vericat-Ferrer M, Ayala A, Ncogo P, Eyene-Acuresila J, Garcia B, Benito A, et al.
Int J Environ Res Public Health . 2022 Jul; 19(14). PMID: 35886079
Tuberculosis remains one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Equatorial Guinea, with an estimated incidence of 280 per 100,000 inhabitants, an estimated mortality rate of 96 per...
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Ta-Tang T, Febrer-Sendra B, Berzosa P, Rubio J, Romay-Barja M, Ncogo P, et al.
Trop Med Int Health . 2022 Jun; 27(8):686-695. PMID: 35653502
Objectives: Loa loa and Mansonella perstans are two very common filarial species in Africa. Although microscopy is the traditional diagnostic method for human filariasis, several polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods...
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Febrer-Sendra B, Fernandez-Soto P, Crego-Vicente B, Diego J, Ta-Tang T, Berzosa P, et al.
Diagnostics (Basel) . 2022 May; 12(5). PMID: 35626235
Loiasis, caused by the filarial nematode , is endemic in Central and West Africa. has been associated with severe adverse reactions in high -infected individuals receiving ivermectin during mass drug...
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Ta-Tang T, Berzosa P, Rubio J, Romay-Barja M, Ncogo P, Agudo D, et al.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz . 2022 Feb; 116:e210210. PMID: 35170676
Background: Loa loa is a filarial species found exclusively in West and Central Africa. Microscopy is the traditional diagnosis method for human loiasis. Several molecular methods have developed as an...
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Berzosa P, Fuente I, Ta-Tang T, Gonzalez V, Garcia L, Rodriguez-Galet A, et al.
Malar J . 2021 Dec; 20(1):463. PMID: 34906159
Background: Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases in the world, particularly in Africa. As such, resistance to anti-malarial drugs is one of the most important problems in terms of...